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Language Skills

R
C++
Git
Bash
SQL

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Last updated on 2022-04-03.

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Brennan Beal

I am a pharmacist turned data scientist excited about briding the gap between data and people. My favorite projects are cross-functional in nature and revolve around creating efficiencies in the way that data is understood and delivered. In my spare time, you can find me blogging1, getting outdoors, or enjoying a good craft beer with friends. Reach out and let’s build something together!

Industry Experience

Quantitative Scientist

Flatiron Health

New York, NY

Current - 2021

  • Leading Syntech in the automation and deployment of a quality assessment pipeline to cut monthly engineering time by 75%
  • Collaborating with our clinicians to develop R packages for scaling the speed at which we can deliver data sets to clients
  • Conducting research on the use of real-world data (RWD) for ex-US HTA use cases, including collaboration with NICE, UK and thought leadership surrounding the transportability of US-generated real-world evidence (RWE)
  • Researching clinical and socioeconomics barriers to access for Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy patients
  • Thought leader for target-trial emulation to reduce immortal time bias when conducting observational research

Post-Doctoral Healthcare Economics Research Fellow

AbbVie with the University of Washington

Seattle, WA

2021 - 2019

  • Created and began marketing an RShiny app, the Real-World Evidence Assessments and Nee¬ds Guidance (REAdi) Tool, to assist payers in streamlining the process of RWE synthesis and decision-making, which went on to receive $50,000 in funding
  • Designed and led a study indicating large US payers spend >$315M on preventable glaucoma costs supporting legacy Allergan’s second largest durable growth area prior to the acquisition
  • Managing vendors to support an economic value story for AbbVie’s $2.3B eye care portfolio

Independent Consultant/Entrepreneur

Chiesi USA, Inc.

Raleigh, NC

2019 - 2018

  • Restructured FY 2020 marketing strategy by identifying a $600k profit opportunity within their provider outreach program
  • Optimized marketing efforts for an $80M product by demonstrating the synergistic effect of two separate in-house marketing teams, yielding a 300% increase in uptake compared to no marketing


Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks

Passport for Travel: Proposed Framework for Transportability of Oncology Real World Evidence2

ISPOR 2022 Poster

N/A

2022

  • Brennan Beal, Ivy Altomare, Joshua Ray, Danielle Bargo, Blythe Adamson

Comparing Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs for Patients with Normal Tension Glaucoma Across Levels of Severity: A Retrospective Cohort Study3

Clinical Ophthalmology

N/A

2021

  • Brennan Beal, Vanessa Shih, Joanna Campbell, David Veenstra, and Beth Devine

Online tools to synthesize real-world evidence of comparative effectiveness research to enhance formulary decision making4

Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy

N/A

2021

  • Shuxian Chen, Jennifer Graff, Sophia Yun, Brennan Beal, Jamie T Ta, Aasthaa Bansa, Joshua J Carlson, David L Veenstra, Anirban Basu, and Beth Devine

Intro to R5

University of Washington

N/A

2021

  • Developed and led a course to teach incoming PhD and Fellows the basics of understanding data with R

REAdi Tool for RWE Evaluation

R/Medicine 2020

N/A

2020

  • Invited to present6 the REAdi Tool as a novel use case for RShiny

Selected Data Science Writing

I regularly blog about data science and visualization on my blog LiveFreeOrDichotomize.7

Expected Loss as a Way to Better Communicate Cost Effectiveness8

Personal Blog

N/A

2018

  • Walk through of training a convolutional neural network to achieve state of the art recognition of activities from accelerometer data.
  • Contracted article.

Education

M.S., Healthcare Economics and Outcomes Research

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

2021

  • University Graduate Fellow
  • Thesis: Comparing Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs for Patients with Normal Tension Glaucoma Across Levels of Severity: A Retrospective Cohort Study
  • First Fellow to receive the University of Washington School of Pharmacy Graduate Student Leadership Award

Doctorate of Pharmacy

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC

2019

  • Focused on healthcare economics and value of pharmacists in primary care clinics

B.S., Structural and Molecular Biochemistry

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC

2015